A Subtle Mind

     Comparing the Loving-Kindness with the Subtle Mind Exercise, they both require focus, focus on breathing, they both require control of the thoughts and they both last long enough to have an impression on your stress level coming down.
     Contrasting the two exercises, Loving-kindness has a different focus than the Subtle Mind focus. Loving-kindness focuses on a significant other having a hard time with a disease or a problem. You breath in their disease or problem away from them and into the earth, you breath out happiness, peace, healthy and joy back to the significant loved one.
     In Subtle Mind your focus is either on the breath in or the breath out, or some other focal point. Then, controlling the drifting thoughts, when your mind wanders, you witness the thought and bring it back to focus on breathing in or out, whichever you choose.
     In my experience, deeper be far than any others I have experienced. The Subtle Mind relaxed me so much that the speaker startled me when she began talking after the period of quietness during the exercise. I was finally able to actually bring my wandering mind back to focusing on my breath as I breathed out since it seemed more dramatic than my breathing in, and I need all the help I can get from my own body to help to get me in the mode of real meditation and control of my thoughts.